Archive for February, 2005

Because of the world eating snowstorm that forecasters predicted here, this is what my commute home looked like. This is Route 52 in Centreville, Delaware at 5:20pm today. When I went to pick up my daughter from the snow day program at the local Y at 2.30, the roads were merely wet while a few hours later, the roads had about 2 inches of snow on them.

Usually the road is busy with commuters in the early evening. And to be honest with you, my commute was actually quite pleasant since I was able to stick the Jeep into 4-wheel drive and go about 30 on the way home without really worrying about the other morons on the road.

I accidentally discovered this the other day when I was reviewing referrers for some of the sites I admin. I saw a keyword for an ad campaign I designed on AdWords but the referrer was from Ask Jeeves. Intrigued by this, I of course had to confirm this was really happening, so I went to Ask Jeeves, plugged in the keywords in search box, and voila, my paid ad was the first result on the “Sponsored Web Results” part of the page.

As a marketer, I could care less that Ask Jeeves is carrying Google ads. But I thought Ask Jeeves was bought out by Yahoo?

I have a Microsoft Access question that I know the solution is probably exceedingly easy but I can’t seem to find it.

What I want to do is count the number of times a particular ID is duped. I created a “find duplicates” query, and “grouped by” in the particular field and then created an expression to count the dupes exp1:count([fieldname]). However, all that the count does is count each individual dupe and it only returns a 1 for each dupe. Sum() doesn’t work in the expression and neither does RunSum().

My MSSQL skills are rusty so that’s why I was trying to create the darn expression in the query design window.

I took this image while on the puddle jumper from Asheville to Charlotte North Carolina earlier this week. As soon as I had taken it, the flight attendant who just happened to be passing by my seat loudly informed me that she “did not advise people taking pictures from airliners because people have been arrested for doing that.” I kid you not.

Ever confused about the whole Bookbinder’s not Bookbinder’s saga? A new chapter has opened with the Old Original Bookbinders now re-opening, but under ownership of someone totally new. Via The NY Times

Old Original Bookbinder’s, the historic Philadelphia seafood restaurant at 125 Walnut Street (215-925-7027) that Samuel Bookbinder opened in 1865, has been resuscitated after having been closed for three years. It will open on Monday. John Taxin, whose grandfather bought the place in 1944 from the Bookbinders, has shrunken the premises to 13,000 square feet from 45,000. The new chef, David Cunningham, right, worked in New York at Le Bernardin, Lespinasse and Lenox, and at the Yardley Inn in Bucks County. The confusion between Old Original Bookbinder’s and Bookbinder’s 15th Street House, also in Philadelphia, is over. That restaurant, which was opened by members of the Bookbinder family, has closed.

Cards and candy and emails were exchanged. I wore my socks with hearts. I have some pretty purple flowers on my desk (gift from a coworker…) My daughter totally gorged herself on candy from her class party.